Decarlo Quotes & Sayings

I thought coming here would change things for me, but I'm starting to worry that I've done what I always do: mistake a distraction for a chance at redemption. — Melissa DeCarlo

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me. — Dan DeCarlo

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story. — John Goodman

There is no such thing as magic," she told me. "You can b e l i e v e all you want, but it's never going to do you any good. Nobody flies. We only fall — Melissa DeCarlo

I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie. — Dan DeCarlo

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half. — Erwin Chargaff

Nick can do a pretty good nice, but it's not the real deal. His is a thin, watery nice, a niceness-au-jus drizzled over a great big asshole sandwich. — Melissa DeCarlo

I love thinking about things subtextually and I actually - like for instance when I write, I actually, I'm not very analytical about it. I don't ever deal with the subtext because I just know it's there so I don't have to deal with it. I just keep it about the scenario. I keep it on the surface, on my concerns. And one of the fun things is is when I'm done with everything, like now, for instance. — Quentin Tarantino

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books. — Dan DeCarlo

Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book. — Dan DeCarlo

God, there's nothing like embarrassing a ginger to improve my mood — Melissa DeCarlo

After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me. — Dan DeCarlo

She could flunk of no reason at all — Amanda McCabe

Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to a man, but it does not bring him one ounce of sovereignty. God rules even when men imagine they are defying Him. — Tom Wells

No sketches first, no studies, that's long past:
I do what many dream of, all their lives,
--Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive--you don't know how the others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat,--
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter)--so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.
There burns a truer light of God in them,
In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain,
Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt
This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine.
Their works drop groundward, but themselves, I know,
Reach many a time a heaven that's shut to me,
Enter and take their place there sure enough,
Though they come back and cannot tell the world. — Robert Browning

Sometimes my entire life has felt like one long exercise in lowering my expectations. — Melissa DeCarlo

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since. — Dan DeCarlo

I pull out a zippered CD case, but unfortunately, it's slim pickens inside, and I say this not only because the choices are bad, which they are, but because there actually is a Slim Pickens CD inside. — Melissa DeCarlo

That's the problem today: Who is the creator? — Dan DeCarlo

As far as I'm concerned, there are two types of people in this world: people like Queeg who, when life gives them lemons make lemonade, and everyone else. And although those smug lemonade-makers think the rest of us just sit around all day day bitching about not getting oranges, they're wrong. It's all about volume. When you're ass-deep in lemons, you start looking for a shovel, not a pitcher and a cup of sugar — Melissa DeCarlo

Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half. — Dan DeCarlo

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought. — Dan DeCarlo

What need does the earth have of us? — Pope Francis

I don't know what she thinks a Matilda looks like, but I've always thought that I look a little like Gene Wilder, except with longer hair and a vagina. — Melissa DeCarlo

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality. — Paul Farmer

The heavy soul will not pass though the body is failing. — J.R. Ward

321. - We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I don't know what she's thinking, but I'm thinking how fluid the border is between crazy and interesting, and how hard it is to decide who belongs where. — Melissa DeCarlo

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three. — Dan DeCarlo

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener. — Dan DeCarlo

Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful. — Dan DeCarlo

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have. — Dan DeCarlo

JJ informed me, when he dropped them off, that they are French bulldogs, which has led med to reassess my opinion of the French. They may know a lot about making wine and fries, but they don't know jacques-merde about making dogs. — Melissa DeCarlo